Sentence examples for being means from inspiring English sources

Even child benefit is now being means tested.

What concerns me is that the current technologies have been converted from being means to being ends.

DUP sources also point out that there was no mention of winter fuel payments being means tested and no removal of the triple lock on pensions.

Clearly, then, the word 'is' has just as many meanings; a thing is a threshold because it lies in such and such a position, and its being means its lying in that position, while being ice means having been solidified in such and such a way.

The fact that Americans are outraged by oppressive governments, but lack a realistic theory of how stable governments come into being, means that it is easy to generate political support for attacking undesirable states and organisations, but hard to generate support for building anything to replace them.

A letter from more than 50 former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates in the 2010 election has been sent to Clegg urging him to respect party policy and vote to allow disabled people to retain employment support allowance for at least two years without being means tested.

It suggests that child benefit be paid for the first two children only, with families being means-tested before receiving subsidies for a third.

"Stop being mean.

Was being mean-spirited?

Avoid being "mean".

Being mean or obscene.